Murray Woodman

Murray is a co-founder and the Managing Director at Morpht.

Murray brings 25 years of development and consulting experience to Morpht, working in the content management area on a number of systems on a variety of platforms. In that time he has worked in legal publishers, startups, web agencies and in house in a variety of capacities as designer, developer and information architect. Murray's interests include data modelling, the semantic web and performance. Murray is an organiser of the Sydney Drupal Meetup and regularly speaks at camps and conferences. He still gets a buzz out of seeing the final published product at the end of the process.

Qualifications

  • BEc (Soc Sc) Hons, LLB (Sydney University)
  • Acquia Certified Developer
  • ScrumMaster
Murray Woodman – Director
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Projects

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Commonwealth Grants Commission (CGC)

The CGC website is based on Convivial for GovCMS and includes document containers and file collections; as well as an interactive map of Australia.
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Australian Immunisation Handbook

Morpht, in conjunction with Folk, has delivered the Australian Immunisation Handbook for the Department of Health, improving information access for health professionals across Australia.
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NSW Food Authority

The NSW Food Authority engaged Morpht to redevelop, refresh the design of its website and migrate the content from TRIM WCMS to GovCMS.
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ASQA

ASQA is the national regulator for Australia’s vocational education and training sector and seeks to ensure quality in the sector through the regulation of courses, training and providers.
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Attorney-General's Department

Morpht re-architected 1,200 pages and more than 6,000 publications, factsheet and forms into 9 site sections and improved their discoverability with faceted searches.
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GreenPower

GreenPower is the only government managed renewable energy accreditation program in Australia operated by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.
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Convivial for GovCMS

The GovCMS8 UI-Kit Starter theme ships with GovCMS8 distribution and is enabled when new sites are spun up. It has been designed to implement the Design System and to provide editors with a flexible system to build attractive pages.
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Wild Women On Top

A case study into the Wild Women On Top Drupal 7 website.
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Australian Law Reform Commission

Morpht upgraded the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, making it responsive and porting across custom functionality from the legacy site.
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Nova Entertainment

A case study into the work Morpht has done for Nova Entertainment, building and supporting their Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 web platforms.
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Easy Street

A case study into the Drupal 7 webssite for Easy Street.

Articles

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Managing lists in Drupal

An examination of the humble "list" and how content can be modelled in Drupal to be flexible, simple and editor friendly.
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Convivial for GovCMS receives a makeover

Morpht is proud to announce a new release of Convivial for GovCMS which includes personalisation and improved content types, architecture and components.
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Visualising content models in Drupal

Creating a visual representation of a content model can help clients better understand the internal design of their Drupal website and how the pieces fit together.
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Convivial CMS DrupalSouth demonstration

Convivial CMS was demonstrated as part of the sponsor showcase at DrupalSouth Shorts. The demonstration focuses on editor experience and Drupal personalization.
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13 ways to personalize your Drupal website

DrupalSouth presentation on Drupal personalization where Murray Woodman demonstrates 13 ways to personalize your Drupal site with open source modules.
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Makers, takers and altruism

A look at the concepts of Makers and Takers and how an understanding of altruism can help open source projects such as Drupal adapt to the future.
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Layout Paragraphs: A new way to manage Paragraphs

This is a presentation about a relatively new module called Layout Paragraphs. However, it really should be subtitled as "A brief history of laying things out in Drupal". 
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Morpht turns nine

As Morpht turns nine, a look back over the past year on all the things we have achieved.
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Announcing Sajari AI powered search for Drupal

Those of you who work with Drupal, you are probably familiar with the combination of using Search API with a search backend such as MySQL or Solr. A pluggable architecture makes Search API a good choice for indexing content in Drupal.
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Personalisation with Recombee

Learn about integrating personalisation in Drupal via Recombee. A presentation by Murray Woodman at DrupalSouth 2019.
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See you at DrupalSouth Hobart 2019

Morpht will be presenting at DrupalSouth Hobart 2019 on Personalisation with Recombee and Content migration.
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GovCMS8 and the UI-Kit Starter theme

The newly released GovCMS8 distribution ships with a brand-new base theme, designed to deliver a great-looking, functional site - straight out of the box, with no theming or coding required. Suitable for government agencies, platform evaluators as well as site builders and themers.
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GovCMS8 UI-Kit Starter Theme released

Earlier in the year Morpht was hard at work on the new GovCMS8 UI-Kit Starter theme. That work has come to fruition and has now been released as open source.
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Bricks, Paragraphs and Modifiers

DrupalCon Nashville is being held from April 9 to April 13 in, you guessed it, Nashville. Morpht will be presenting on a site building recipe which combines the Bricks, Paragraphs and Modifiers modules.
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Convivial, a friendly way to build Drupal sites

Convivial is a new way to build Drupal websites. It is based on a solid foundation of component driven development with useful building blocks for quickly implementing functional website.
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Announcing Entity Reference Display

The Entity Reference Display module allows editors of Drupal sites to select which view mode they would like to display a list of entities as.
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GovCMS and Digital Transformation

The GovCMS platform is designed to help government agencies get online and to address the challenges and opportunities posed by Digital Transformation. This article looks at the new requirements of the DTO and how they apply to GovCMS.
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DrupalGlamp Sydney 2015 Wrapup

Each year the Sydney Drupal Community puts on a two day "DrupalCamp", generally held over a weekend at a location where attendees can get away from it all and get down to some serious Drupal talk.
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GovCMS demo site

Morpht has released a GovCMS demo site which demonstrates some techniques which can lead to easier more effective site builds for Government agencies.
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Designing for GovCMS

Designers and Information Architects unfamiliar with GovCMS can get the most from it by knowing about the patterns of Drupal and GovCMS.
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The features and capabilities of GovCMS

A high level look at the features and capabilities of the GovCMS codebase. Suitable for those considering whether to build a site on the platform.
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Drupal Camp Sydney 2014

It's been a while since the Sydney Drupal community put on a Drupal camp. It's time for that to change.
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One weird old tip to lose node weight

A lightning talk, presented by Murray Woodman, which examines the entity load times for different objects including nodes, users, field collections and users. Comparisons are made between different caching strategies, including entitycache, as well as the weight added by fields and hooks. Just how heavy are nodes anyway?
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Information architecture for site builders

Information architecture for site builders video presentation presented at DrupalCon Sydney 2013. Find out about the horizontal aspects of Drupal, modelling multi typed objects, relationships and tips for building faceted classification.
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DrupalCon coming to Sydney

Exciting news for Drupal fans. DrupalCon will be landing in Sydney on 6th-9th February 2013.
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CDNs for optimal performance

The time it takes for a page to be delivered to a user is very important. The shorter the better. Sites which suffer long download times will typically have higher bounce rates and lower conversions than sites which are faster. Google has recognised the importance of a snappy site by rewarding faster sites with better search results rankings.
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